Researchers from Ohio and Kentucky looking into sex education in schools have discovered that "teacher-student relationships are key" to making sure that kids achieve a healthy sex life.
Eric Anderman, educational-psych prof at Ohio State, and colleagues including Pamela Cupp of Kentucky carried out the research on some 700 …

Teachers?

Woo-hooo....

With advances to the scientific body of knowledge such as this - my bet is that pretty soon those Kentuk-e-yans will be tackling more advanced problems like forming cutting tools by banging rocks together.

Why couldn't I have been born later...

I wanted to forge closer relationships with several of my female teachers, and I wanted to "come out on top." I'm sure we could all have satisfied each others needs! Our sex-education was completely theoretical and there was not one lesson on chatting up!

@ Tim

Oh dear.

I'm used to this sort of thing on the beeb, but I really did expect better from El Reg. Taking a half-arsed survey that basically confirmed common sense and pretending its a story? Such a pity to see decline even at Reg Towers.

So

So does this mean that your average bible belter church going parent within these states is truly asleep at the wheel all the time with their heads stuck permanently up their A* and relying on other authority figures to teach that which they should have done from first principles , truly sad indictment that "Idiocracy" has arrived and is now a permanent feature within the states in question , shades of "Dumb and Dumber" and the totally blind being led down the garden path by those who never see past their own insanity !

That certain socialite syndrome is now a permanent fixture in the bible belt , how evil is that !

Deus ex machina is hiding up their asses?

"When it comes to learning life-changing behaviors in high school health classes, the identity of the person teaching may be even more important than the curriculum", says the OSU item.

So these scholars haven't heard of Tupac or Beanie Man. Or of the Media-Infotainment Complex. Or of who owns it.

Or of the UK , where nu labour's schools sex education initiative led to an increase in teenage pregnancy - research having found that it was perceived by our noble yoof, with their still-developing organs and glands, as legitimizing said activity. Clearly these "psychologists" have a long way to go before they find the gists of their psyches.

@much-missed Busted?

@name too long

"Kentuk-e-yans" - is that an attempt at phonetic spelling? No one over here says that... particularly no Kentuckian - even in Appalachia... maybe it's a reference to something I'm not aware of :\

@What about the parents crowd - it's very true that parents increasingly try to shift more and more of their child's upbringing to the schools. However, this could be one case where the little darlings are going to feel more comfortable and open discussing with... well... pretty much any one on the planet other than their parents =D

Ding-dong battle

In the ongoing battle royale to see whether Lewis Page will Borg the Reg with his unhealthy fascination with flying instruments of death, or the Reg will Borg Lewis Page with its heroic embrace of writing entire news articles in the form of double entendres, the Reg just landed a vicious right hook, I'd say. But I'm sure Mr. Page isn't out for the count yet. Ding ding, round 11!

Best LP article EVAR!!

Who are they kidding?

These days if you're waiting till high school to teach sex ed, you're already a few years late. Of course they were comfortable about it when the teachers taught in a friendly way, that's the proper way to teach anything if there were the time and small class sizes to make it possible. Can't speak for the state of many OH schools but down in most of KY outside of the metropolitan areas the school funding is fairly low, and teacher student ratios have as much to do with number of students in the geographic area as anything else.